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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Y'know, they warned me the future would be like this.

Okay, go back in time to, say, the mid-1980s...

Grab some random stranger on the street and tell them that, in the future, a former vice presidential candidate's daughter was going to be on a celebrity dance contest show, and when she won, accusations would be flung that it was somehow rigged by her mom's political party, and one guy would be so outraged that he'd blow away his television with a shotgun and take his family hostage, causing his house to be surrounded by machinegun-toting cops in armored vehicles for a tense standoff that would attract national media attention.

They'd think you were pimping a sequel to Escape From New York or The Running Man, not describing some random November weekday in Wisconsin. I mean, female vice presidential candidate? That's the second oldest "near-future" science fiction trope in the book. (A black president is the oldest.)

I dunno. There's something afoot.I'm trapped in a world where the only English language programming is BBC and CNN. (ugh)They had the finalists on (yeah, news, right) and showed some clips of each.I wasn't impressed with Bristol's skills, so I'm not sure how she made it as a finalist.(I don't watch the show, nor any of its ilk, but I keep the TV on as background noise when I'm in my room.)

GeWehr98, forgive Me. My comment was referring to the enraged individual mentioned in the article.Also, I saw what you had for breakfast Sunday. That did not look like granola. You most certainly are not "crunchy" in my book. ;)Best!